The echo of the explosion stayed in my ears
as if the sound was still hanging in the air,
even after the flames disappeared behind the fire trucks
and the black smoke kept rising slowly into the sky
Police cars and ambulances mixed together
as if the whole city had woken up to the same nightmare
The Bank of Japan
the most important bank in the country
the center of the economy
its underground floor had turned into ashes
After a few minutes
people around us started whispering
financial collapse
economic shock
stocks are falling
the market is shaking
fear spreading among citizens
Even those who were not inside the bank
felt their day was no longer safe
News channels came instantly
"Breaking News: Explosion in the Bank of Japan"
The government announced a state of alert
and the military closed all roads leading to the city center
But inside my head
something completely different was shaking
I looked at Miyoko
she was staring at the explosion
but her face wasn't afraid
it was… still
as if she had expected this
I said quietly
"Miyoko… we barely survived"
She didn't answer
her eyes stayed fixed on the smoke
then she said in a calm, cold voice
"Genso… they know we're here"
One word
but it hit my head like a hammer
"They?"
I turned to her quickly
"Who are you talking about?"
Miyoko trembled for a moment
something in her eyes cracked
as if she had been hiding the truth for years
and now she couldn't anymore
"Genso… what I'm about to tell you… no one else should hear"
Cold blood ran through my back
"Tell me"
She took a deep breath
looked around to make sure no one was listening
then said
"The man with the black coat…
he's not just someone chasing me"
"He belongs to an organization
A highly secret organization
No one knows its real name,
its goals,
or who controls it"
Behind us
the government was taking full control
soldiers were spreading
bomb experts
economic analysts
risk teams
everyone was moving
while I stood there
breathing heavily
feeling that the world was changing behind me
and I didn't know how
I asked her
"What does this have to do with the explosion?"
She looked at me
and fear passed in her eyes
"Genso…
the bank explosion wasn't the main target.
It was only noise
A huge distraction"
"To make everyone busy—
the government,
the police,
the media,
the whole country—
so they forget something bigger"
She stared at the smoke covering the sky
"…This is their real method
They create a small chaos,
to hide a much bigger one behind it
One no one can see"
I felt my heart dropping slowly
so I asked
"Then what do they want?"
She stepped forward
her voice turning into a whisper
barely reaching my ears
"I don't know
But what happened today…
is only the beginning"
Seconds later
a special investigation team arrived
announcing they would analyze the cause of the explosion
But Miyoko said in a heavier voice
"They won't find any evidence
The organization erases its traces
before the smoke even rises"
I looked at her
my eyes shaking
and still asked her
"Did they… know about my vision?"
She froze
but didn't answer
as if the truth itself
was too heavy to say in the street
I raised my head to the smoky sky
and felt everything from my old life
burning with the basement of that bank
And this really happened—
the government held an emergency conference
the stock market stopped
companies announced an unexpected break
people wondered if their money was safe
everything fell under the weight of the explosion
But while police cars were closing the area
and the smoke was rising like a black curtain over the city
somewhere far
deep
where Tokyo's noise could not reach
there was a dark room
its walls covered with monitoring screens
cameras
maps
and devices tracking every move inside the bank
from the moment we entered
Only one man was sitting there
his back straight
his voice emotionless
the man with the black coat
One of the screens showed the explosion clearly
people running
fire eating the underground floor
He raised his eyes slowly
a cold, steady look
as if all of this…
was only one small step
in a much bigger plan
Then he said in a low voice
like a whisper
but carrying the weight of a whole strategy
"Everything went exactly as expected"
He did not smile
he did not move
he only turned off the screen with a single touch
And in the darkness
a single word appeared on a glowing panel
blinking in faint red light
"SPECTRA"